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Definitions of pearmain in various dictionaries:
noun - any of several varieties of apples with red skins
noun - a variety of apple
PEARMAIN - A pearmain, also formerly spelt "permain", is a type of apple. The name may once have been applied to a particular variety of apple that kept well, a...
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| any of several varieties of red-skinned apple |
| A type of pear. |
| Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin. |
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A pearmain, also formerly spelt "permain", is a type of apple. The name may once have been applied to a particular variety of apple that kept well, although in more modern times its inclusion in varietal names was, like the term 'Pippin', "largely decoration" rather than indicating any shared qualities. The original 'Pearmain' variety has not been conclusively identified and may now be extinct. * There has been some debate over the origin of the name "pearmain". The pomologist Robert Hogg suggested that it originated in mediaeval times from pyrus magnus, "great pear", and referred to a type of apple having a large pear-like shape. There was a "Permain" apple tree on or near 143 Esplanade, Te Kuiti, New Zealand in the 1940s and 50s that had very tasty, very white fleshed, large pear shaped apples (as Remembered by former residents). Hogg believed that the variety 'Winter Pearmain' was both "the original of all the Pearmains" and the oldest recorded variety of apple in England, with e |